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Review

"Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus." - Joe Meno

36:T56a, I earnestly thought "this is the funniest book I have ever read" or "Rontel is the funniest book I have ever read" probably ~200x while and after reading Rontel. I said "~300x" somewhere else but ~200x seems more accurate. (I should say that I don't feel, or haven't felt, amused by, for example, Saturday Night Live, which to me has never seemed funny.) I didn't feel that Rontel (which seemed, to me, hilarious and "delightful" and moving) was distracting me with humor, or anything, from things like death and confusion. I felt like it was successfully teaching me a sustainable, non-faith-based, stimulating, considerate way to live with those things.Rontel affected my actions IRL to a degr